"The significance of this calf is, he’s the third calf ever born from artificial insemination(AI), the second born from frozen thawed sperm and the first calf born by AI in North America,” said Parker Pennington, Ph.D., post doctorial associate in Reproductive Sciences at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research.

There are about 18,000 southern white rhinos left in the wild and only two northern white rhinos are left, both females.

Victoria is one of six female southern white rhinos that reside at the Nikita Kahn Rhino Rescue Center.

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